Publications

July 2020
Article

Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education... View Details

Keywords: Management; Hospitals; Mortality; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Business Education; Management Practices and Processes

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2012
Chapter

Re-Developing Leaders: The Harvard Advanced Leadership Experiment in Even Higher Education

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Leadership Development; Higher Education; Education Industry

Article

The pay-off for a prestigious college degree is smaller than you think

By: Frederick M. Hess and Joseph B. Fuller

Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Earnings

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2004
Chapter

The Paradox of Scope: A Challenge to the Governance of Higher Education

By: David J. Collis

Keywords: Governance; Higher Education; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry

2020
White Paper

Does Attending a More Selective College Equal a Bigger Paycheck?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Frederick M. Hess

Keywords: Higher Education; Education; College

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Video

HBS Alumni for Social Impact - Where Does Higher Education Go From Here?

September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
Teaching Note

Halftime for Heidelberg

By: Debora L. Spar

Keywords: Higher Education; Strategy; Ohio; United States

08 Nov 2017
News

As The Demand For Higher Education Rises, So Do College Admissions Standards

2016
Working Paper

Financial Value, Stakeholder Satisfaction, and the Moderating Role of Western Higher Education

By: Daniel A. Brown

08 May 2023
News

Empires of Ideas: Higher Education in China and the United States

03 Jul 2019
Podcast

Expanding access and conveying competencies: How Western Governors University is rethinking higher education

Western Governors University was founded in 1997 to expand access to affordable higher education and to offer instruction grounded in the requirements of the job market. WGU President and HBS alum Scott Pulsipher tells Bill about the school’s innovative online model,... View Details

February 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard

By: Maria P. Roche

Set in 2022, this case describes the considerations involved in organizing the physical relocation of the Rowland Institute at Harvard (RIH), a research institute established in 1980 by Edwin H. Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation, for the advancement of... View Details

Keywords: Optics; Engineering; Higher Education; Strategy; Science; Buildings and Facilities; Research and Development; Real Estate Industry; Biotechnology Industry

February 2022
Teaching Note

Linda Oubré at Whittier College

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-057. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Diversification; Board; California; United States

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Teaching Note

Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard

By: Maria Roche

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-441. View Details

Keywords: Optics; Engineering; Higher Education; Strategy; Science; Buildings and Facilities; Research and Development; Real Estate Industry; Biotechnology Industry

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details

February 2002 (Revised March 2003)
Case

Casuarinas Educational Corporation

By: Michael J. Roberts, Howard H. Stevenson and Matthew C. Leib

Casuarinas has developed a very successful elementary, now secondary, school based on excellence in teaching, service, and multilingual education. Peru lacks similar high-quality post-secondary institutions. This case focuses on the potential entry of Casuarinas into... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Management; Market Entry and Exit; Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry; Peru

April 2011 (Revised April 2014)
Case

ASAHI Net: Bringing Innovation to Education

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

ASAHI Net developed a cloud-based platform for higher education institutions to use in Japan and was wondering if that platform could be accepted in the U.S. as well. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Technology Platform; Education Industry; Education Industry; Japan; United States